Phrase Hound found 39 phrases and 33 compound words that contain orphan. The most common are listed below. Open orphan in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 39
- orphan drugA medicinal drug which is effective in the treatment of some disease(s), but which is not manufactured or marketed because the demand is insufficient to cover the costs of supply.
- orphan workA copyright-protected work for which rightsholders are positively indeterminate or uncontactable.
- half orphanA person, especially a child, with only one living parent.
- war orphanAn orphan whose parents were killed in a war.
- orphan acronymAn existing acronym which has been redefined by some authority (such as a company legally defining its own name) as a nonacronymous name, severing its link to its previous meaning.
- double orphanA child whose parents have both died.
- maternal orphanA child whose mother has died.
- orphan asylumorphanage
- orphan diseaseAny disease for which drugs are not usually developed because it is too rare to make the development profitable.
- orphan diseasesplural of orphan disease: Any disease for which drugs are not usually developed because it is too rare to make the development profitable.
- orphan drugsplural of orphan drug: A medicinal drug which is effective in the treatment of some disease(s), but which is not manufactured or marketed because the demand is insufficient to cover the costs of supply.
- orphan JohnHylotelephium telephium, a succulent perennial ground cover native to Eurasia.
- orphan medicineorphan drug
- orphan receptorA receptor that has a similar structure to other identified receptors but whose endogenous ligand has not yet been identified
- orphan sourceA self-contained radioactive source that is no longer under regulatory control, for example because it has been abandoned or misplaced.
- orphan stara star that is not part of any galaxy, but exists in intergalactic space instead
- orphan trainOne of the trains, operating between 1854 and 1929, that transported orphaned and homeless children from crowded Eastern cities of the United States to foster homes located largely in rural areas of the Midwest.
- orphan trainsplural of orphan train: One of the trains, operating between 1854 and 1929, that transported orphaned and homeless children from crowded Eastern cities of the United States to foster homes located largely in rural areas of the Midwest.
- orphan worksplural of orphan work: A copyright-protected work for which rightsholders are positively indeterminate or uncontactable.
- social orphanA child with no adult carers, though one or both parents are still living.
- paternal orphanA child whose father has died.
- orphan initialismAn existing initialism which has been redefined as a nonacronymous name, severing its link to its previous meaning.
- orphan-crushing machineA notional machine representing a system or state of affairs that obviously facilitates suffering but is not acknowledged or examined, or for which no alternative is considered.
- elder orphanAn elderly man or woman with little or no support from any relatives or any friends.
- orphan houseAn orphanage.
Compound words 33
- orphanageA residential institution for the care and protection of orphans.
- orphanhoodThe state of being an orphan; the losing of both parents through their death.
- deorphanizationThe development of a drug so that it is no longer an orphan drug.
- orphanishResembling or characteristic of an orphan.
- orphanlikeResembling or characteristic of an orphan.
- deorphanizeTo identify the endogenous ligands of an orphan receptor
- deorphanizedDescribing an orphan receptor whose endogenous ligand has now been identified (producing an "adopted orphan").
- dextrorphanA psychoactive morphinan drug that acts as an antitussive and dissociative hallucinogen.
- ketorfanolAn opioid analgesic of the morphinan series.
- levallorphanAn opioid antagonist from the morphinan family.